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Word: endeavors (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Freshman tennis team will endeavor to keep its slate clean and add another victory to its total of five straight wins when it meets the Yale Freshmen on the New Haven courts at 3 o'clock this afternoon. The Crimson yearlings have been unfortunate this spring in having to cancel many of their matches due to rain, and what contests they have played have resulted in one-sided victories. Consequently they go to New Haven almost untested with the result that while their record is more brilliant, they have not had as good a preparation for a hard match...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARD TENNIS EXPECTED IN YEARLING CONTEST WITH YALE | 5/27/1922 | See Source »

...half length lead at the start and then settled down to a well rowed 29 while the 1924 boat rowed at about 31. All the way down the first mile the two crews kept this distance between them with first one and then the other spurting in an endeavor to increase or close...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 1923 EIGGHT OVERCOMES 1924 | 5/13/1922 | See Source »

...line of travel--along the first horse-car line. What was the result? Congestion of course: Rush hour congestion; then housing congestion; Why say more? What happened next? Why other lines were constructed of course. Did their owners seek another part of the city for a route and endeavor to develop more of the city? Why should they? Mind you, it was a business proposition they were dealing with: Would it have been good business? No! There was congestion along the first lines. A new line was needed to relieve it. Why take the time to develop new territory when...

Author: By Daniel L. Turner, CONSULTING ENGINEER TO NEW YORK TRANSIT COMMISSION | Title: CITY TRANSIT FACILITIES SHOULD NOT BE BASED ON TRAFFIC IMMEDIATELY IN SIGHT | 5/6/1922 | See Source »

...comes the temptation to let things slide and just hit the "high spots" so to speak. Although there is a limit to the things which a student can do it is remarkable what can be accomplished by a little systematization, not only in study but in other lines of endeavor as well. If the average student counted up the hours absolutely wasted in idle talk or in some other useless from of inactivity, he would find that his working hours are far less than he really supposed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENT | 4/24/1922 | See Source »

Although the coaches are not disturbed by the failure of the second crew to measure up to the first eight, they feel that the shell is down at the bow and is not rowing together well. In an endeavor to smooth out these difficulties, Dr. Howe will try out the new men and shift the present combination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNIVERSITY CREW AGAIN SHOWS ITS SUPERIORITY | 4/11/1922 | See Source »

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